Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Berry Surprise Cake

For this week's Tuesdays with Dorie, Mary Ann of Meet Me in the Kitchen chose Berry Surprise Cake on pages 273-275 of Dorie's book, Baking: From My Home to Yours.

Now, before I tell you about the cake, let me tell you about Mary Ann. Mare (as she signs her posts), is amazing!!! She posts practically everyday and her family eats GOOD. Everything she makes is fun, healthy (besides our tasty treats, but I'm sure everything is in moderation at her house), and yummy. If you don't subscribe to her blog, you definitely should!

Based on the comments from other bakers, people had some difficulty with the whole egg genoise cake. I'm in the club!! I thought I treated my eggs like the divas they are, but alas, I got a sinkhole.

Oh well, I made one 6-inch cake (froze that one) and two 4-inch cakes. I simply cut the sunken tops off the 4-inch cakes and stacked them together. I didn't have anything raspberry flavored so I just used a simple syrup of sugar and water.

I picked up some raspberries grown in Mexico at Trader Joe's. It was all very yummy! I'm interested in seeing what other fruits the TWD bakers used! Be sure to check out the other Tuesdays with Doriebakers! And look for the recipe on Mary Ann's blog.

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I was having a little bit of a hard time imagining how this cake would "work" (looks-wise), but now I know...yours look wonderful. Today will be an amazing day...thanks for baking all those treats to celebrate!

Your little cake turned out too cute! I had more problems with the cake assembly versus the cake itself, but definitely agree that this was quite delish. Nice idea to freeze the 6" --- you can break that baby out when berries come in season (which isn't soon enough)